Idle Dominion

HOLD. Every castle you take starts its own yard from nothing — lumber, stone,

iron, a forge, a workshop, houses that pay rent. Buildings are local; the purse

is shared. A holding you have not opened in three castles is still cutting

timber for the siege you are watching.

MARCH. An army walks to the next castle, in real hours. Bring more than the

minimum and the road is shorter.

YOUR WORKS ARE THE ONLY THING THAT CARRIES

Twelve siege works — a battering ram up to a bombard, a levy up to your own

household guard. Build one with what the workshop and the training grounds made,

level it with gold, and it stands on the field for the rest of the campaign.

Everything else about a castle is left behind when you take it. The ladder is not.

TWENTY-EIGHT CASTLES,

IN ANY ORDER

The map is uneven and there is no way to skip a road. A crag wants siege

weapons; a plain wants men, and your works are checked against both before you

set out. Where you go next is worth about a third of the whole campaign.

STEWARDS

Put somebody on a building and it collects itself, for ever. That is the promise

the whole middle of the game is built on: a realm that keeps working while you

are not looking.

DEEDS

Eighteen things worth having done, from your first wall to a realm where every

holding runs without you. They are the near horizon in a campaign whose far one

is twenty-eight castles away.

ONE ADVERT,

AND YOU HAVE TO GO LOOKING FOR IT

Nothing plays between screens. Nothing interrupts a siege. There is a single row

in the store that hands you the same chest the timer gives you, without the four

hours — four a day, if you want them. Ignore it for the whole campaign and the

game is exactly the same game.

NO ENERGY BARS. NO TIMER ASKING FOR MONEY.

Gold sharpens what you have built. It cannot build it — a new engine on the field

costs materiel, and materiel comes from a workshop you widened, fed by a mine you

widened first. Nothing you can buy skips that, and nothing you can buy shortens a

wave that is already in the air.

NO ACCOUNT AND NO SIGN-IN

Your campaign lives on your device and follows you between your own devices

through your iCloud. There is no server of ours, and there is nothing to log in

to.

NOTHING ASKS TO TRACK YOU

There is no permission box here, because there is nothing to grant. The one

advert is not personalised — it is not chosen from anything you did in another

company's app, and no identifier from this game is linked to one. That was a

choice, and it cost what personalised adverts pay.